The Digital Plenitude: The Decline of Elite Culture and the Rise of New Media

by Jay David Bolter

Book Overview

How the creative abundance of today's media culture was made possible by the decline of elitism in the arts and the rise of digital media.

Media culture today encompasses a universe of forms--websites, video games, blogs, books, films, television and radio programs, magazines, and more--and a multitude of practices that include making, remixing, sharing, and critiquing. This multiplicity is so vast that it cannot be comprehended as a whole...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262039737
• ISBN13: 9780262039734
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"